Quaker Peace Roundtable --- April 6-8, 2001 --- Final Program
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Information about the Presenters & Workshop Leaders.
About the Quaker Peace Roundtable
FRIDAY APRIL 6, 2001
(State College Friends School [SCFS] Community Room)
5:00 PM 7:00 PM Registration, and DINNER
7:00-7:30 PM Welcome by Chuck Fager, and Music by Aaron Fowler & Laura Dungan
7:30-9:30 Plenary: Quaker Peace Activists Share Their Stories: Aaron
& Laura; Max Carter; Val Liveoak; Joe Volk; and participants. Clerked by Chuck Fager.
Summary
Notes of the Opening Session & Panel
A Paper on
"Living the Peace Testimony" by Val Liveoak
SATURDAY APRIL 7, 2001
7:00 AM 7:45 BREAKFAST (SCFS Community Room)
8:00-8:30 AM Worship (Community Room)
8:30-9:30 Plenary: Joe Volk, FCNL A New Congress, New President, New
Challenges.
Summary Notes of this Presentation
WORKSHOPS ROUND ONE (9:45-10:45 AM) ---------------------------------------------
1. Alternatives to Violence Project: Steve Angell.
Summary Notes of this Session
2. AFSC Peace Mobilization teams: Judith McDaniel.
Summary
Notes of this Workshop
3. Let Our Classrooms Speak: an Exploration of Living Quaker Testimonies Through Teaching -- Cynthia Merriwether-deVries
4. Aaron & Laura: Music & Activism.
Summary Notes of this Workshop
WORKSHOPS ROUND TWO (11:00AM-12 Noon) ----------------------------------------
5. A New Campaign for the Peaceful Prevention of Armed Conflicts & Gross Violations
of Human Rights: Mary Lord, FCNL
Summary Notes of this workshop
6. Young Friends & Selective Service Registration: Rachel Zuses, NISBCO.
7. Peace Studies -- Connecting the Campus and the Activists: Ron Mock, George Fox
University.
(Note: This workshop had to be canceled due to Ron Mock's travel
difficulties.)
8. Peace Teams, Quaker & Interfaith: Sallie King & Val Liveoak.
Summary Notes of
this Session
A
Paper by Sallie B. King
12:15-1:15 PM LUNCH (Community Room) & Announcements
WORKSHOPS ROUND THREE (1:45-2:45 PM) ----------------------------------------------
9. The UN and Peacebuilding on Many Fronts: QUNO Staff.
Staff
Outline of this Workshop
Summary Notes
of this Session
A QUNO Paper on
Controlling Small Arms
QUNO Charts on
Preventing/Resolving Conflict
10. War crimes Trials vs. Truth Commissions: Justice or peace after massive violence
and human rights abuse. Helena Cobban, an internationally-known scholar on the subject.
Summary
Notes of this Session
Additional Notes from this Session
11. Young Friends and Peace Witness: Max Carter, Guilford College.
12. Activist Self-Care and Avoiding Burnout: John Calvi.
Summary
Notes of this Session
Two papers
by John Calvi
WORKSHOPS ROUND FOUR (3:00-4:00 PM)----------------------------------------------
13.The Environment and Peace Witness: Kim Carlyle.
A Paper by Kim
Carlyle
14. Great Lakes Africa Peace Project: David Zarembka.
Summary
Notes of this Session
Additional
Notes from this Workshop
A Paper by David
Zarembka
15. Further Thoughts on Peacekeeping: Mark Walsh.
A Paper
by Mark Walsh
Slides
from this Workshop
16. The Biblical Basis for Peacemaking: Ron Mock.
A Paper by Ron
Mock
4:00 - 5:30 Free Time, conversations with presenters, and Informal Interest Groups (Community room)
5:45 - 7:00 DINNER
7:15 - 8:45 Plenary Panel On Peacekeeping: Experience, Issues & Prospects, with: David Jackman, QUNO staff; a UN Diplomat; & Mark Walsh (U.S. Army Peacekeeping Institute).
9:00 - 9:30 Music & refreshments
SUNDAY APRIL 8, 2001
7:45 AM 8:45 AM BREAKFAST
9:00 - 10:00 Worship
10:15 - 11:45 Plenary Panel: What Keeps Us Going, with: Sallie King,
Buddhist-Quaker peace scholar; John Calvi, Quaker healer; Mary Lord, FCNL; Ron Mock,
George Fox University; Val Liveoak, Friends Peace Teams; Chuck Fager clerking.
A Paper by Sallie B. King
11:45-12:15 Closing by Chuck Fager, and Music by Aaron & Laura.
12:15 LUNCH and Departures